Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, ...

A SLAC-Stanford study reveals exactly what it takes for diamond to crystallize around a "seed" cluster of atoms. The results apply to industrial processes and to what happens in clouds overhead ...

When we talk about crystals around here, we’re generally talking about the quartz variety used to make oscillators more stable, or perhaps ruby crystals used to make a laser. We hardly ever talk about ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The paradigm may be changing for how to grow diamonds in a lab. Current methods ...

Not to be confused with imitation diamonds, made from glass or plastic, lab-grown diamonds are real diamonds created in a laboratory using a sophisticated process. Lab-grown diamonds are often cheaper ...